Re: UNCIVIL UNIONS
"nicholas a. evans" <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]> wrote: > I could agree to that without hesitation. > > I support a flat tax. A flat tax (without anything else in place to mitigate it) is a regressive tax. 20% of $20K might be the difference between being homeless and merely living poorly. 20% of $1M might mean you'll want to wait an extra year before buying that Porsche you've always wanted. > I'd settle for leaving the rates as is but closing some of the > loopholes or deductions that are needed at lower income levels but not > at higher levels. Actually, cleaning up some of the loopholes would > probably allow for lower tax rates and the government would still > collect more. That said, while I can't morally support a regressive tax, I whole-heartedly support lowering the tax rates across the board if it means removing the loopholes and simplifying the tax code. I'd like to see our tax returns on a single 8x10 piece of paper. -- Nick -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot